Power outage

Labor day a good day for a power outage!!

First noticed the power cutting in and out a couple times around 2am and then it was out at 3am until 8pm.

Got out a little power source and quickly connected it to the 12v and started to run extention cords through out the house.

This was around 10am and just connected a stand up fan at first, then the refrigerator and then another stand up fan, then two lamps

This was all connected once the ICE got to two bars and started charging, I had just the one stand up fan connected when the HV battery was almost full and it took a long time to get to two bars with just one fan connected.

It was hot outside today and the temp inside the house got to 95F

Once the battery drained to two bars and the ICE turned on to charge to three bars, I paid attention to how long the battery lasted until the next recharge.

With just the one stand up fan using about 50watts it lasted 40 minutes until it charged again.

Once the refrigerator was hooked up, I checked how much just the refrigerator was using and it was 142watts.

Then pluged the fan back on and it went to 185watts and I ended up getting to just over 200watts with both fans, the refrigerator and two lamps later on.

Once all those things were connected, the ICE would kick on every 20 minutes like clockwork, then 3 minutes to charge to three bars then silence for 20 minutes.

I ran this all day from 10-8pm with a solid half a tank of gas, it did not even drop a bar.

I love how quiet it is to run the Prius as a generator versus hearing my neighbors run their loud generators.

Some pictures of the day below.

The ICE starts to charge at 42.26 SOC
For 3 minutes to 53.56 SOC

What a day oh the first thing I actually tried was my espresso machine, gotta start the day right.

 

10 out of 10 stars for running over 10 hours and not even dropping a bar on the fuel gauge.

 

All together the ICE ran a total of about 90 minutes for the 10 hours and maybe used 20-30 miles tops on the DTE.

 

For simplicity we will say I used 2,000 watts in 10 hours for less than 1 gallon of fuel.

 

Well he said there is about 36,000wh per gallon of gas, so with that I can run 100w for 360 hours.

 

So I used about 200w an hour with 1,000wh in 10 hours out of the possible 36,000wh available per gallon.

 

Please elaborate and correct me instead of just having a question with no answers.

 

@fuzzy1

See post #10

 

Yet you still have no answer yourself.

The only thing you have is time to waste.

Come on, lets see you tell me how much
Wh I used in the 10 hours.

I will be waiting...